Yann Novak
@yannnovak.com
└ Queer Artist, Composer & Technologist
└ Housefather at @dragonseyerecordings.com
└ Preservationist at @substratum.digital
└ Developer at @3n.design
└ 💍 to @robert.takahashinovak.com
📍Los Angeles, CA
🏳️🌈
https://www.yannnovak.com
└ Housefather at @dragonseyerecordings.com
└ Preservationist at @substratum.digital
└ Developer at @3n.design
└ 💍 to @robert.takahashinovak.com
📍Los Angeles, CA
🏳️🌈
https://www.yannnovak.com
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Yann Novak
@yannnovak.com
· Jul 4
My new album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out now! Through this release I wrestle with what is public and private, true and false, as the world slides deeper into a fascist surveillance state.
🎧 LISTEN/PURCHASE → yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/contin...
🎧 LISTEN/PURCHASE → yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/contin...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
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Nonce Goggles®.
“I'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.”
Reader, they are for creeps.
Reader, they are for creeps.
I Can't Help Feeling Like a Creep Wearing Meta's New Gen 2 Glasses
Meta's new display-less smart glasses are quite good, but the vibes are off.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Nonce Goggles®.
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Join us for a listening party to celebrate 𝙏𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙮𝙏𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙮𝙁𝙞𝙫𝙚, hosted by the curator @antxnio.bsky.social, alongside DER housefather @yannnovak.com, and joined by all the contributing artists.
December 6, 2025 @ 5:00 PM PST
RSVP → dragonseyerecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/join-u...
December 6, 2025 @ 5:00 PM PST
RSVP → dragonseyerecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/join-u...
Join us for a listening party celebrating TwentyTwentyFive from Dragon's Eye Recordings
Listening Party from Dragon's Eye Recordings.
dragonseyerecordings.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Join us for a listening party to celebrate 𝙏𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙮𝙏𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙮𝙁𝙞𝙫𝙚, hosted by the curator @antxnio.bsky.social, alongside DER housefather @yannnovak.com, and joined by all the contributing artists.
December 6, 2025 @ 5:00 PM PST
RSVP → dragonseyerecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/join-u...
December 6, 2025 @ 5:00 PM PST
RSVP → dragonseyerecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/join-u...
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We’re thankful to every single person who has installed Rayhunter, taken it out into the world, and helped gather more data about cell-site simulators. github.com/EFForg/rayh...
GitHub - EFForg/rayhunter: Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot
Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot - GitHub - EFForg/rayhunter: Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We’re thankful to every single person who has installed Rayhunter, taken it out into the world, and helped gather more data about cell-site simulators. github.com/EFForg/rayh...
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🅲🆁🆄🅸🆂🅴
🅼🅸🆂🆂🅸🅻🅴 🅸🅽🆃🅴🆁🆂🅴🅲🆃🅸🅾🅽🅰🅻🅸🆃🆈
𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙩
This Friday
6:00pm
Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
Free entry
Open to public
🅼🅸🆂🆂🅸🅻🅴 🅸🅽🆃🅴🆁🆂🅴🅲🆃🅸🅾🅽🅰🅻🅸🆃🆈
𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙩
This Friday
6:00pm
Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
Free entry
Open to public
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
🅲🆁🆄🅸🆂🅴
🅼🅸🆂🆂🅸🅻🅴 🅸🅽🆃🅴🆁🆂🅴🅲🆃🅸🅾🅽🅰🅻🅸🆃🆈
𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙩
This Friday
6:00pm
Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
Free entry
Open to public
🅼🅸🆂🆂🅸🅻🅴 🅸🅽🆃🅴🆁🆂🅴🅲🆃🅸🅾🅽🅰🅻🅸🆃🆈
𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙩
This Friday
6:00pm
Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
Free entry
Open to public
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Record labels somewhat famously have never been in the morality business and somewhat more famously have always been in the “squeezing artists for profit until they burn out and die” business
Record labels had the chance to stand up for copyright against AI scrapers — but now they're folding www.platformer.news/suno-warner-...
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Record labels somewhat famously have never been in the morality business and somewhat more famously have always been in the “squeezing artists for profit until they burn out and die” business
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Kim Kardashian: Check out my pubic hair panties.
Robert Therrien: Hold my beard.
Robert Therrien: Hold my beard.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Kim Kardashian: Check out my pubic hair panties.
Robert Therrien: Hold my beard.
Robert Therrien: Hold my beard.
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No encryption = no protection 🛡️
No protection = total surveillance👁️
No protection = total surveillance👁️
February 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
No encryption = no protection 🛡️
No protection = total surveillance👁️
No protection = total surveillance👁️
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I have 99 problems right now and money would solve 98 of them.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I have 99 problems right now and money would solve 98 of them.
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One in twelve rams are gay!!! And farmers kill them bc they won’t breed instead of allowing them to live out a quiet life of producing wool for freaks like me!!!
Rainbow Wool
Rainbow Wool is the first fashion made from the wool of gay sheep to support queer projects across the globe. #🌈🐏
rainbow-wool.eu
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
One in twelve rams are gay!!! And farmers kill them bc they won’t breed instead of allowing them to live out a quiet life of producing wool for freaks like me!!!
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Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Date night with @robert.takahashinovak.com !
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Date night with @robert.takahashinovak.com !
I am gallery sitting at @fulcrumarts.org today until 5pm in Pasadena. Come see Sam Shoemaker’s Mushroom Boat.
And in the process visit me!
And in the process visit me!
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I am gallery sitting at @fulcrumarts.org today until 5pm in Pasadena. Come see Sam Shoemaker’s Mushroom Boat.
And in the process visit me!
And in the process visit me!
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
This is so fucked, predatory tech startup Flipcause is withholding funds from small non-profits. They own one I work with just under $20k and another just under $100k. Because its spread across the country its hard to know how much they owe in total.
abc7news.com/post/exclusi... @theverge.com
abc7news.com/post/exclusi... @theverge.com
EXCLUSIVE: Bay Area company accused of mishandling thousands of dollars in nonprofits' donations
Where's the money? Nonprofits across the country are complaining about Flipcause, an Oakland-based company that helps them collect donations. The nonprofits tell the I-Team they are having a hard time...
abc7news.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is so fucked, predatory tech startup Flipcause is withholding funds from small non-profits. They own one I work with just under $20k and another just under $100k. Because its spread across the country its hard to know how much they owe in total.
abc7news.com/post/exclusi... @theverge.com
abc7news.com/post/exclusi... @theverge.com
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i think most heterosexuals and even some queer/trans people have vastly underestimated the ability of queer ppl to keep each other alive. we are not asking or begging, we are saying ”your laws are meaningless, we will survive by any means necessary and there’s literally nothing you can do about it.”
May 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
i think most heterosexuals and even some queer/trans people have vastly underestimated the ability of queer ppl to keep each other alive. we are not asking or begging, we are saying ”your laws are meaningless, we will survive by any means necessary and there’s literally nothing you can do about it.”
Life has been so crazy recently that I have not been able to give much of my time to my new project @substratum.digital, but I am finally getting back to it.
Before the shit hit the fan for me, I did a presentation about it that is now available online. If you are curious about it have a watch!
Before the shit hit the fan for me, I did a presentation about it that is now available online. If you are curious about it have a watch!
Substratum founder @yannnovak.com recently gave a presentation to AFELL (Artist & Foundation Estate Leaders List) about the web preservation work we are embarking on. AFELL has made the it publicly available, it's a great resource to learning more about us:
www.softnetwork.art/books-articl...
www.softnetwork.art/books-articl...
Preserving At-Risk Websites with Substratum Founder Yann Novak — Soft Network
When artists, musicians, and cultural organizations conclude their missions, the websites that represented them are left at risk of disappearing. Without preservation, these digital spaces vanish and ...
www.softnetwork.art
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Life has been so crazy recently that I have not been able to give much of my time to my new project @substratum.digital, but I am finally getting back to it.
Before the shit hit the fan for me, I did a presentation about it that is now available online. If you are curious about it have a watch!
Before the shit hit the fan for me, I did a presentation about it that is now available online. If you are curious about it have a watch!
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last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
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The future will be the last river being vaporized so that your personal Matthew McConaughey can gently urge you to end your life.
Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey partner with ElevenLabs for AI voice cloning
Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey partner with ElevenLabs for AI voice cloning
Oscar-winning actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey have made deals with voice-cloning company ElevenLabs that will allow its artificial intelligence technology to replicate their voices.
www.dailyherald.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The future will be the last river being vaporized so that your personal Matthew McConaughey can gently urge you to end your life.
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UCLA is *us*: Faculty, students, and staff.
Not administrators.
Not administrators.
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
UCLA is *us*: Faculty, students, and staff.
Not administrators.
Not administrators.
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God is a gay furry who loves us and wants us to be happy
"Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine that one day I would paint a picture of hot Bowser for official material, announced by Miyamoto himself. 😭 I laughed so hard in disbelief while painting, you have no idea lol"
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
God is a gay furry who loves us and wants us to be happy